Project Home Renovation

[Ryan T]

Well we closed on the house today. As some of you know I'm a little handier around a house than I am a car and I love working on homes and property. So we bought a house in need of some updating. We got it for about $30k less than the average homes in the neighborhood and we plan to sink about 8k into it. We are saving a TON by me doing all the labor myself.

Specs:
Built: 1976
1600 finished sq.ft.
2 car drive under garage
3 bedrooms
2 baths
~.4 acres

Purchased today:
White tile, underlay and grout for the bathrooms
Tan ceramic tile for the kitchen
Classic Butterscotch laminate wood flooring with backing already attached
All new light oak cabinets
Paint for every room
Black range/oven, fridge (present from mom), dishwasher, microwave

I purchased about 3/4 of an acre of chain link fence, posts, gates and caps from my neighbor for $100. Scored a free riding lawn mower from my cousin earlier this week too. We will fence in the rest of the back yard in a month or so.

Our timetable is this: Rip out carpet, screw in subflooring to eliminate squeeking, and paint friday and saturday. Lay flooring sunday, monday and tuesday while Samantha paints. Move all our furniture in next weekend. Sew grass seed next weekend in bare spots in yard. Two weeks from now my friend Tim and I are going to lay all the tile in bathrooms and remove old cabinets/hang new cabinets 2 weekends from now. We still have to figure out which countertops and sink we want, but we've got a pretty good idea. After we install the cabinets we will cut and lay all the tile in the kitchen.

After that it will just be small projects, removing old heater controls, removing heater from master bath and installing fan, finishing the basement, etc.

On to the pics of the classic 70s home:



Back yard:


Front yard:


Total 70s porno finished basement:


Garage:


Living Room:


Kitchen ready to be gutted:


Part of master bedroom with the horrid passion pink carpet: